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The tag is impossibly, uselessly vague. Any question posted on this site is implicitly a "problem"! The questions under this tag have nothing at all in common, beyond that many of them are rather low-quality.

Can we please burninate and/or blacklist this tag? It's useless.

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    Yes, we'll have to use the "question" tag instead. – Olin Lathrop Dec 24 '15 at 22:18
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    Kill it with fire. – Matt Young Dec 26 '15 at 4:52
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    Agreed. The tags are supposed to help narrow down sub-fields so that people knowledgeable in them can find questions easier and help more people. Problem, Question, Help: they're all pretty useless to that effect. – Dave Dec 26 '15 at 5:05
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    The two questions (y'all probably nuked the rest) i see tagged as "question" are in fact meta-questions. Someone attempting to use that tag should be guided to the meta site. – gbarry Dec 27 '15 at 1:08
  • blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags – Scott Seidman Dec 28 '15 at 21:37
  • There are no more question tagged as [problem], what's next? – Bence Kaulics Jan 4 '16 at 19:46
  • Perhaps we should use the euphemism, "challenge?" – Tim Spriggs Mar 29 '16 at 13:37
  • Maybe you should just kill all the questions with that tag on them also, it might clean things up a bit. – laptop2d Aug 2 '16 at 18:02
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    At least it's not a [doubt] tag. – Chris Stratton Mar 19 at 20:16
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Looks like this tag was cleaned up in 2016. If it shows up again, remove it on sight.

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